the western civilisation world... is in an information and hybrid war with russia right now. russian state tv continues to avoid the words "war" or "invasion". they're banned. instead, the official message is that, in ukraine, russia is using force to bring peace. like many russians, valentina gets all her news from state tv — and believes it. in russia, television's a powerful tool for shaping public opinion about the war. a lot of what they say on tv, it is truth, it's true. how do you know? well, you know, when i read in a foreign newspaper that, you know, russians bomb kharkiv and so on, i know that it's not true, because they promised not to do this